Dated: 25.05.2015 Subject: Expression of interest (EOI) for appointment of Internal Auditors for undertaking internal audit of construction projects ( PMC, EPC & Real Estate). 1.NBCC Ltd., A Navaratna CPSE, having Head Office at NBCC Bhawan, Lodhi Road, New Delhi- 110003 and Internal Audit Office at Internal audit Div., Estate Maintenance Office, GPRA Complex, New Moti Bagh, N. Delhi-110023 invites Expression of Interests from reputed and experienced audit Firms for out sourcing internal audit of construction projects (PMC, EPC & Real Estate). 3. The sealed offers containing expression of interest should be submitted duly filled for technical evaluation along with unconditional acceptance of terms and conditions with fees in the office of Internal Audit at New Moti Bagh, New Delhi latest by 17.06.2015. 4. NBCC reserve the right to reject any or all the offers without assigning any reason. General Manager (Finance) 1|Page GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR APPOINTMENT: The CA Firms should be atleast ten years old having experience in construction companies and conducted Internal/statutory audit in PSUs in last five years. The Firms should have minimum three partners and fifteen number of audit staff on roll (excluding partners). The extra marks shall be given for bigger firms established more than ten years ago having more staff (qualified article/ audit clerk) on roll. The preference shall be given to local based firms having Head office as audit of projects shall have to be undertaken as per availability of records in our zonal offices. General Terms & Conditions: 1. Audit shall be undertaken with reference to check list provided by NBCC detailing scope of work. 2. The Audit firm appointed by NBCC must not sub-contract the work. 3. Firms selected by NBCC shall have to give an undertaking to follow all ethics of faith and the information provided by NBCC shall be kept strictly confidential. 4. If progress/performance of the audit team is not found satisfactory, the management reserves the right to terminate the appointment of the firm at any time. 5. The audit firm will be debarred from getting, in future, the internal audit of NBCC in the following cases :a) If the firm obtains the appointment on the basis of false information/false statement. b) If the firm does not submit the Audit Report, complete in all respect, in terms of appointment. 6. NBCC reserves the right to reject any or all bidders or cancel/ withdraw expression of interest without assigning and reasons what so ever and in such cases, no bidder shall have any claim arising out of such action. 7. The Audit of projects as per the assigned work has to be completed and audit report should be submitted in a time bound manner which will not exceed more than 45 days from the date of letter of appointment. 8. In case of any dispute, the decision of NBCC Management shall be final and binding. 2|Page The audit programme and annual fees payable per project is given as under:- Category Turnover Slabs (in crs.) Frequency of audit in 2015-16 Duration of Each Audit A 200 crs & above 1 05 days B 100-<200 1 04 days C 50-<100 1 04 days D 15–<50 1 03 days No. of persons required in audit team No of man days Q=2 10 O=4 20 Q=1 4 O=4 16 Q=1 4 O=3 12 Q=1 3 O=2 6 Annual Audit fee per project 40,000.00 24,000.00 20,000.00 12,000.00 *Q=Qualified Chartered Accountant (FCA / ACA) as a team leader. O=Other than team leader. No transport/TA/DA/others expenses (except audit fees) will be payable by corporation to CA firms undertaking Internal audit work locally. These are only proposed draft terms and conditions and can be modified at any time by the Corporation at its sole discretion. SCOPE OF WORK: The CA firm has to carry out audit of accounts, books pertaining to projects and compliance of conditions of award as per check list provided by NBCC. PLACE OF AUDIT : Records pertaining to audit shall be available at Zonal Offices located at Delhi & NCR/ Chennai/ Bangalore/ Hyderabad/ Mumbai/ Kolkata/Patna/Ranchi/ Bhuvneshwar / Guwahati /Agartala / Noida/Lucknow / Dehradun /Bhopal / Surat/Chandigarh/Sri Nagar (J & K) /Jaipur & etc. SUBMISSION OF AUDIT REPORT: On completion of audit, the observations noticed shall be discussed with project/zonal office officials and audit report shall be prepared/submitted in triplicate, one copy for Zonal Head and two copies to Internal Audit Section, NBCC Ltd., Estate Maintenance Office, GPRA Complex, New Moti Bagh, New Delhi - 110023. PAYMENT OF AUDIT FEES: The audit fees will be paid category wise as mentioned above plus Service Tax per project. 100% fee shall be payable after completion of audit and submission of final audit report in time. No advance shall be payable under any circumstances and payment shall be remitted through RTGS as per the bank detail mentioned on bill submitted to Corporation. TDS shall be deducted as per Income Tax Act, 1961 for which TDS Certificate shall be issued by NBCC. 3|Page EVALUATION CRITERIA FOR AUDIT FIRMS Sl. No. Particulars 01. Year of Incorporation 02. No. of partners 03. 04. 05. 06. No. of audit staff on roll (other than partners) PSU Audits (Statutory /Internal Audit) in last 05 years Experience in Construction Company (Statutory /Internal Audit) Local Presence Minimum reqmnt. Basis of Marks Marks allocable allocation years 01 marks for each year - - 10 old 03 nos. 15persons - - - - - - Remarks FCA Partner ACA partner 05 per person 04 per person FCA ACA Article/ Audit clerk Maha Ratna, Nav Ratna, Mini Ratna, Others PSUs 03 per person 02 per person 01 per person Subject maximum marks Subject maximum marks Subject maximum marks 05 03 02 01 Subject to maximum 10 marks } per audit } per year } } Construction company 05 marks per should be audit a) Listed, or b) Turnover >Rs.1000/crs. or c) Networth >Rs.500/-crs. for the auditing year. Same City HO - 10 Branch - 02 to 20 to 20 to 30 Subject to maximum 10 marks. Subject to maximum 10 marks. Total marks allocable -100 Note:- Firms are requested to fill in required detail regarding their organisation/firm set up based on above parameters. 4|Page